The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2025 Sep 21

• A cold dessert to follow a hot curry Crossword Clue
• Alternative answer to the 18A clue Crossword Clue
• A member of Siberia's largest indigenous people Crossword Clue
• "____ a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process" (Peter Shaffer) Crossword Clue
• Area of Liverpool, once a hunting forest, later a royal park Crossword Clue
• A reason for interrupting a TV or radio broadcast Crossword Clue
• A storage facility associated with a medieval church Crossword Clue
• A "white ____" is in fact a kind of cockroach Crossword Clue
• Beat generation novel featuring Sal Paradise Crossword Clue
• Beppo is a diminutive form of this Italian forename Crossword Clue
• Boxers like Barry McGuigan and Naseem Hamed Crossword Clue
• British codename for Juan Pujol García, a Second World War double agent Crossword Clue
• ____ Castle represented Hogwarts in Harry Potter films Crossword Clue
• Chinua Achebe's ____ (1958) was one of the first novels in African literature to gain worldwide fame Crossword Clue
• Doc Brown's dog in the film Back to the Future Crossword Clue
• Economic model relating inflation and unemployment, first suggested in 1958 Crossword Clue
• Evelyn Waugh novel sometimes seen as moving away from his earlier satirical style Crossword Clue
• Fake gumshoe played by Pierce Brosnan on 1980s TV Crossword Clue
• Famous British Museum exhibit - in 2026 Crossword Clue
• Female forename which was originally Cornish, and popular in the 1950s Crossword Clue
• First African nation to qualify for the Fifa World Cup, in 1934 Crossword Clue
• Former name for a zoological subclass of ticks and mites Crossword Clue
• Four of Derbyshire's show caves are at the foot of ____ Tor Crossword Clue
• French-based term for playing a drag or trouser role Crossword Clue
• French-based term for social distinction or major success Crossword Clue
• Geographically, another name for the Horn of Africa Crossword Clue
• In the ____ s of Central Asia is a Borodin composition Crossword Clue
• Informal agreement to a proposal Crossword Clue
• Informally, behaved boisterously Crossword Clue
• In present tense phrasal verbs, this can precede "Across" and "Down" Crossword Clue
• "I pace along, the rain-shafts riddling me" (____, Hardy) Crossword Clue
• "I saw old autumn in the misty morn, / Stand shadowless like silence, ____ silence" (Thomas Hood) Crossword Clue
• "____ is indestructible. […] Do not try to imitate him" (____ title sequence) Crossword Clue
• ____ is often called the first domesticated kind of wheat Crossword Clue
• ____: The Enigma of a Century was a German novel about an unknown young man found in Nuremberg in 1828 Crossword Clue
• The ____, hosted by Gordon Burns (1977-95), tested the fitness and wits of contestants Crossword Clue
• The ___ was a TV franchise created by Simon Cowell Crossword Clue
• James ____ played Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In Crossword Clue
• Mineral deposit formed in places like the Dead Sea and Death Valley Crossword Clue
• Name shared by a biblical kingmaker and a bumpkin in a US cartoon series Crossword Clue
• Naturally gathered foodstuff sold as a health supplement Crossword Clue
• Persian ruler who tried to conquer Greece in 480-79BC Crossword Clue
• Rower closest to the cox in a racing shell Crossword Clue
• So far, George II is the only ____ to become a British king Crossword Clue
• Surname of Britain's first internationally famous cellist Crossword Clue
• The closest seaside resort to Paris Crossword Clue
• Tool used for precision weeding in small areas Crossword Clue
• US interstate 80 follows parts of this 19th-century route Crossword Clue
• ____ Vespucci gained fame from a decision by the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller Crossword Clue
• Words often followed by "sunshine" Crossword Clue